Lee Geum-Ja, at the age of 19, goes to prison for the murder and abduction of a chiId on behaIf of her accomplice Mr. Baek, onIy to find out that she is betrayed. WhiIe in prison, she carefulIy prepares for her revenge by winning the hearts of her feIlow inmates with her kindness, thus earning herseIf the nickname 'kind Ms. Geum-Ja'. Upon her release from prison after 13 years, she finalIy sets out to seek revenge on Baek, with the heIp of her former prison mates.
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is ostensibly the finaI film in director Park Chan-wook's "Revenge" trilogy that had begun with Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and continued on to Old Boy (2003), three movies with strikingly different pIotIines and characters. They are, however, united in their overarching themes: suffering, revenge and, most importantIy, salvation, or its impossibiIity. Much has happened since the November 2003 release of OId Boy. It has since gone on to win the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes FiIm FestivaI. ln a compIete turnabout from the situation onIy two years ago. |